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TIL Stephen King sells the rights to some of his short stories for $1 so that film students can use them to make movies. He calls them his ‘Dollar Babies.’

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KOZE4 TIL Sony made an ad for their color display technology featuring 1/4 million brightly colored bouncy balls released down the steep streets of San Francisco. About 50 students were hired to help collect them using skates and floor squeegees at the bottom after each take.
wKQ6 TIL The White House Correspondent’s Dinner was men-only until 1962, when JFK refused to attend unless women did.
yVlMw TIL of La Bougie du Sapeur. A French satirical newspaper that is only published 29th February. It has been published since 1980 and there have been a total of 12 issues to date
E10ox TIL that Göttingen, a small German university town, was for centuries one of the most productive centers of mathematics in history, developing geniuses such as Gauss, Riemann and Hilbert. But its fall took less than a decade when its stars were pushed abroad by the Nazis.
E18xW TIL A Japanese Man cut off and served his own genitals to five diners, charging them $250 dollars a plate. He was reported to the police but wasn't arrested as there is no law against cannibalism in Japan.